On 2/27/07, Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is the best recommendation for processors these days? Does Dual
Core or Core 2 Duo have any major performance advantages yet?
Its good, but bang-for-buck AMD is still cheaper, at least it was last I looked.
My current motherboard has VIA chipset which I (later) read somewhere
can have problems with linux. I've certainly noticed that disk
performance has been very sub-standard with the current computer and
frequently causes.
I've always been a via fan, solely because you can be almost
guaranteed everything will just intrinsically support it. Especially
important if your running a Unix-like OS which is slower on the uptake
of new hardware. As for hard drives I can't say I can measure a speed
difference on SATA between my VIA On board & my add on- Silicon Image
PCI card ( which I got to increase my SATA port count, and have since
moved totally to the PCI card simply to make drive order easier to
work out and it shaves a few seconds at boot time, as well as making
the connectors easier to access for hot swap instead of having to dive
through the cabling masses to get to the connectors. ), and my boards
getting on 3 years old now and still going strong( that's probably
almost 3 years of aggregated up time on it too, I'm not a fan of
power-downs. ), but then again, its an ASUS, and I -do- like ASUS
boards.
Plan wisely. ( and always make sure to have a quality PSU, long story
short, bad ones kill hard drives).
Good dual head 3D video cards? I might look at something like a Nvidia
Geforce 7300GT.
My main uses for this computer are:
* Normal desktop use
* Website development - running Zend etc.
* running VMware (a necessary evil)
* Digital video work via firewire.
* full development server - apache 2, php, mysql, the usual services.
Thanks!
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Kent
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